[LAU] Daemons, daemons...kill those daemons.

[Brent Busby]

On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, carmen wrote:

>> Many people (including me) are using KDE4 and it's very clean and user centric
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> i found it overtly hostile to basic tasks, like finding a web browser in an app menu
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> plus it caused the boot-to-GUI proces to take 3 minutes
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>> no problem. Why do some people still have problem using an app just because
>> it's a QT or KDE app? I don't get that.
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> because, at least on Gentoo, it requires compiling all of KDE and QT, which can be a multi-day affair (compare w/ 5 seconds for dwm, 10 mins for xorg, and 15 for webkit, a 'WebOS' system in a half hour)
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> then when you launch a KDElibs app, it launches 10 odd daemons, kdeserver, dcop, etcetc, sucking 200 MB of ram
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>> Messy? No way!
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> the hodgepodge of panels and default icons was certainly messy

All this KDE versus non-KDE is interesting, but I already know the 
downsides of KDE itself.  I don't run it all the time, but like having 
it on my system as an available choice.

I was just wondering though whether v4 was quite ready, or whether I 
should stick to KDE 3.  I suppose there are a lot of opinions on that 
though, since there's a lot of discussion on that already on the 
Internet right now.

For me, it comes down to:

Do you think I should allow 'qt4' in $USE at this point, or should I 
stick to 'qt3' only for now?  Loaded question, I know...

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